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Captain America Reminds Iron Man That He Knows How to Actually Fight in This Week’s Nintendo Download

Look, I know that the Iron Man movies ushered in a new wave of Marvel cinematic dominance. But Tony Stark isn’t in charge of things in that superhero universe. Captain America is. He’s got actual battlefield experience and a rank in his codename. In this brave new era of Nintendo embracing all things online, full…

This Street Fighter Fan Movie Doesn’t End the Way You Think It Will

Ryu and Ken. Ken and Ryu. Street Fighter’s eternal rivals have been punching and kicking each other for 25 years now. Lots of fan films (and professional ones) have been made about the fighting game series but their real-life versions of their bouts have rarely looked this good. The filmmakers behind Fractured Illusion offered a…

Resident Evil 6’s New Onslaught, Predator and Survival Modes Coming First to Xbox 360 December 18th

Capcom’s getting ready to mutate the multiplayer experiences in its latest Resident Evil games, with modes that will have players hunting and battling each other in a variety of different ways. From the press release: Available for two to six players, in Predator one player takes on the role of the Ustanak, the fearsome B.O.W.…

Nintendo’s President Plays a Thief in Game & Wario

Announced today during a Nintendo Direct broadcast, Game & Wario bundles together 16 mini-games where players with the Wii U gamepad and Wimotes will compete against each other. One game called Fruits will have players stealing edibles while the others try to catch him. In the video above, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata snatches an apple…

Fire Emblem: Awakening will be out for the 3DS in the U.S. on February 4th, 2013.

Pikmin 3 Gets Beautiful on Wii U Next Spring

In today’s Nintendo Direct, a release timeframe of Q2 2013 was revealed for Pikmin 3. During the broadcast, viewers got a look at the in-progress version of the latest entry of the strategy action franchise. The sequences showed Captain Olimar and a troop of Pikmin wandering through lush garden environments, battling with a giant crab…

Looks Like There’s New Mass Effect 3 DLC on the Way

Eurogamer reports that a new installment of single-player content is being made for Mass Effect 3 The add-on is being crafted at BioWare Edmonton—as opposed to BioWare’s new Montreal studio, where the Omega DLC was created—with all the writers who worked on Mass Effect 3 coming back. A post by designer Jos Hendriks on BioWare’s…

Wow, This Cancelled Streets of Rage Remake Looks Great

Streets of Rage has to be one of the all-time classic side-scrolling beat-em-ups, right? It had a sense of an atmosphere of menace that other games lacked. After a fan-made game was scuttled by Sega, the only activity on the old-school series has been mobile releases of the original games. So it’s a real shame…

Highly ambitious action RPG Path of Exile will be entering open beta on 1/23/13, not this month as previously reported.

The Gameological Society’s Drew Toal examines the potential upsides and downsides of the recently funded LA Game Space.

Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and More Marvel #1s Show Up for Panel Discussion This Week

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?” Hence, this recurring feature in Kotaku‘s slice of comics programming, where comics critics,…

Dial H #7 Puts Two Unlikely Heroes on the Hunt for a Secret Telephone-Worshipping Cult

Dial H is the good kind of weird. The DC comics series springs from the imagination of renowned fantasy author China Mieville and plays host to all sorts of weird, shouldn’t-exist-even-in-comics heroes and villains So far, thanks to aging hippie engineer Roxie, lead character Nelson’s learned some of the origin of the old-school telephone dial…

Injustice Action Figures Let You Plan Superhero Fights in Your Bedroom

DC Collectibles makes very plastic things based on various interpretations of their characters as they appear in print, movies or games. And with the Netherrealm-developed Injustice: Gods Amongst Us due out next year, there will be a new set of figures based on the designs for the superheroes appearing in that fighting game. The first…

The Wii U’s Infamous Day-One Update Will Be Around For a While

As with most new console debuts, the Wii U launch has been rocky. The part that has gotten most consumers complaining is an hours-long, 1 GB patch required to access many of the system’s features. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has even apologized for it. Nevertheless, that annoying experience won’t be going away anytime soon. In…

Hitman: Absolution Site Wants You To Threaten Your Friends With Really Tacky Insults [Update: Square Enix Apologizes]

Look, it’s already pretty clear that the folks at IO Interactive like a particularly adolescent style of joke-making, what with the closet-humping and all. But the latest effort at promoting the Square Enix published game invites you to fling their poor taste at your Facebook friends. It’s pretty tacky. As spotted on Rock, Paper, Shotgun,…

In This Version of The Legend of Zelda, Link Cuts People’s Heads Clean Off

Artistic interpretations of Nintendo’s most popular fantasy swordsman run the gamut from burly and broad-shouldered to effing pissed to utterly horrifying. But these stripped-down paintings by Dave Palumbo represent a more grounded, pulp fantasy take on the Hero of Hyrule. Palumbo—who’s done work for Blizzard, Marvel and Wizards of the Coast—removes the iconic hat and…

These Screens from Grand Theft Auto Vice City: 10th Anniversary Edition Look Damn Good

There’s some debate as to whether the 1980s-set, neon-flecked entry in Rockstar’s crime series is the best one. But it’s hard to debate that the visuals for the upcoming mobile release look very impressive.

Pay What You Want for Cards Against Humanity’s Holiday Expansion Pack. They Say It Won’t Suck Unmentionables.

The makers of the hilariously offensive card game are offering an all-new holiday pack that you can name your own price for. The new sets are probably as funny as the original starter packs, so don’t be a g*****n skinflint. Go and order your Cards Against Humanity Holiday packs here.

Paralyzed From the Neck Down, He Refused to Give Up Video Games

You may not know Alain Poitras’ name. But, if you’ve heard about the quadriplegic gamer who conquered Bronze and Silver challenges in Mass Effect 3, then you’re familiar with two of his biggest accomplishments. Poitras answered some e-mail questions about Mass Effect and what it takes for a person with physical disabilities like his to…

The HD Remake of Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath Comes to the Vita on December 18th

Oddworld Inhabitants’ cult hit has enjoyed a fresh wave of re-appraisal ever since HD remakes for the game popped up recently. There’s been a Vita version in the works, but a previously stated mid-November release date has come and gone. Now dev studio Just Add Water has tweeted that the shinier version of Stranger’s Wrath…